Kayden Jackson is hoping to repay the faith shown in him by Wrexham manager Gary Mills, and help the Dragons push for the play-offs.

Jackson joined the Dragons in the summer from National League North outfit Tamworth, but has often found himself on the periphery of the first team, making 18 substitute appearances but starting only four.

The 21-year-old forward has started the last two games for Mills’s men – putting in excellent displays in a 2-2 draw at home with then National League leaders Forest Green Rovers and on Tuesday night in the 1-1 draw at Moss Lane with Altrincham.

Mills hailed the performance of the youngster, describing his performance as: “Unbelievable, he is getting better and better. His pace, his desire, his hunger, his honesty, really, really pleased with him. He has come on during his period with us and there was always going to be a time where we were hoping that he was going to learn about the game like he has, realise what he has got and just now he has got to top it off with maybe a couple of goals to help us along, but really pleased with him.”

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And Jackson was hoping he could continue to show his ability in Wrexham’s remaining 14 league games and help them push for the top five.

“In training and stuff I have definitely come on a lot since the beginning of the season and obviously the gaffer has seen that in me and is willing to give me the chance to let me show what I can do,” said Jackson.

“I just want to repay the faith that he is showing in me by either goals, assists or general play, and if I work hard and play well every game of the season and we go on an amazing run but I don’t score but we are getting the right results then I will take that as long as we get promoted at the end of the season.”

Tuesday night’s stalemate at Moss Lane was Wrexham’s third successive draw and sees them remain in 12th place in the standings, but close the gap on the play-off places to just four points.

Wrexham though will rue a raft of missed chances throughout, and feel it is two points dropped.

And Jackson, who put in the cross for Simon Heslop to cancel out Josh Ginnelly’s opener for Altrincham, was guilty of missing perhaps the best chance of the game, failing to get a telling touch after Jamal Fyfield’s excellent burst forward.

He added: “It is another point, but I think we should have got three, but again it is a point from a game that we could have lost.

“I know we had more chances than them, but you saw at the end they did have one or two opportunities themselves, so it is a point that we will look to build on and hopefully in the coming games we will start to get the wins.

“In any game where you create so many chances and go close so many times you are going to look back and think we should have taken a chance or two. But I think at the moment the luck is not with us, but I am sure when the luck comes back, we could have easily have won that game four or 5-1 and we will keep plugging away and keeping doing what we are doing and hopefully look to get a big win soon, hopefully on Saturday.”

When asked if he was perhaps trying too hard to break his Wrexham senior duck, Jackson added: “Maybe, I think the longer it goes (without scoring) it plays on your mind more and more. But I am happy as long as I am playing and chipping in with assists like on Tuesday and I am sure the goals will come for me. Whether it be on Saturday or in the last game of the season and I get a hat-trick, and we are promoted. I don’t care when the goals come, just as long as I keep playing and playing as well as I can and hopefully getting the team get the results.”